Attendees at the Netherlands’ Roadburn Festival in 2025 would have witnessed a historic musical melding in the Engine Room venue when two Dutch extreme metal bands—Throwing Bricks and Ontaard—performed a seven-song set together specifically commissioned and composed for the festival. This musical hurricane not only dipped into both bands’ mutual influences—ranging from black metal to screamo to sludge and doom—it included a handful of special guests from the experimental music realm, bringing additional electronic, acoustic and industrial sounds into the mix. The results are captured on this self-released document, Something to Lose: Live at Roadburn 2025, which we are premiering in its entirety.
Something to Lose: Live at Roadburn 2025 is set for release on vinyl and digitally on April 10. Place your preorder here or here.
Both bands collectively had this to say about their collaboration for Roadburn:
“A commissioned piece for Roadburn was never on our bucket list, simply because it kinda felt out of reach for small bands like ours. We didn’t really dare to dream about stuff like that. Yet somehow here we are, and we’re really thankful for all that has happened. All the trust we received and the fact that we were able to share it with so many friends—on stage, in the crowd. For us, this is more than just a live album. It is a document of friendship, a moment, and a collective leap into the unknown.”
